Soho theatre, London After months of being starved of social contact, David Selley’s celebration of togetherness couldn’t be better timedDiane Chorley’s show made a splash two years ago on the Edinburgh fringe. But there’s a sense in this delayed Soho …
Continue ReadingSummerhall, EdinburghTrevor Lock uses audience participation to satisfy our yearning for community in a show that prioritises connection over actionWhat did we miss most during the pandemic: the entertainment or the audiences? We still had box sets and…
Continue ReadingSummerhall, EdinburghTrevor Lock uses audience participation to satisfy our yearning for community in a show that prioritises connection over actionWhat did we miss most during the pandemic: the entertainment or the audiences? We still had box sets and…
Continue ReadingBefore they were superstars, Joan Rivers kissed and tried to kill a young Barbra Streisand on stage – or so she claimed. Now her tall tale has inspired drama The Funny GirlsIn the late 1950s, a 25-year-old struggling actor named Joan Molinsky – later t…
Continue ReadingBefore they were superstars, Joan Rivers kissed and tried to kill a young Barbra Streisand on stage – or so she claimed. Now her tall tale has inspired drama The Funny GirlsIn the late 1950s, a 25-year-old struggling actor named Joan Molinsky – later t…
Continue ReadingArcola theatreThe comedian draws on his Clapham childhood and violent dad as he rails against the dangers of the government’s police, crime, sentencing and courts bill“Behaviour that causes the public or a section of the public to suffer serious annoya…
Continue ReadingArcola theatreThe comedian draws on his Clapham childhood and violent dad as he rails against the dangers of the government’s police, crime, sentencing and courts bill“Behaviour that causes the public or a section of the public to suffer serious annoya…
Continue ReadingThis August the Scottish capital is much quieter but performers and audiences at this modest jamboree are full of spiritOn the wall in my kitchen is a calendar made by Edinburgh theatre critic Thom Dibdin. This time last year, he and his photographer b…
Continue ReadingThis August the Scottish capital is much quieter but performers and audiences at this modest jamboree are full of spiritOn the wall in my kitchen is a calendar made by Edinburgh theatre critic Thom Dibdin. This time last year, he and his photographer b…
Continue ReadingPhotographer Murdo MacLeod has been photographing rehearsals and preparations for this year’s much-reduced programme of the Edinburgh festival, which opened on Saturday Continue reading…
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